One of the major constraints of Nigeria’s biotechnology has been the of lack of regulatory mechanism which would enable the country to bring in various crop species that will encourage higher yield and also convince people to practice agriculture...
The president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, resigned on Sunday, and the soldiers who ousted him in a coup promised to hand power to the president of the National Assembly. Neighbouring states meeting to discuss turmoil in the north of the countr...
Survivors of the yesterday bomb blast in Kaduna have continued to recount their experiences during the explosion that killed over 30 people, including two secondary school boys, a leper in his 30s, a woman, commercial motorcycle operators a.k.a. &lsquo...
The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, General Muhammed Sani Salleh (rtd), has said that the insurgency being experienced in Nigeria today can better be regarded as a war situation. Towards this end, he said there was an urgent ne...
Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party Taraba State, Hon. Victor Bala who confiscated the working tools of LEADERSHIP reporter including camera, phone and a tape recorder in Taraba State has returned the reporter’s working tools pleadin...
A legal icon, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) at the weekend explained that the people of Edo North and other parts of the state rejected the offer of Deputy Governor dangled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the incumbent Governor, Comrade Adam...
The Faculty of Law of the University of Nigeria has produced over 7000 graduates in 50 years of its existence as the pioneer Law faculty in Nigeria just as it had commenced plans to celebrate its Golden Jubilee. Chairman of University of Nigeria, Enugu...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that its bribery allegation against President Goodluck Jonathan, over the construction or ‘renovation’ of a church in his village, has nothing to do with religious or ethnic considerations...
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, on Friday wedded a 22-year-old lady in Lokoja. Curiously, the wedding Fathia (prayer) took place in the mosque at Lugard (Government) House, just as the reception was also held in t...
The policeman, who shot a pregnant woman Safiya and her husband, Mohammed Kabir, last week when they visited Tunga area of Minna, has been dismissed from service. LEADERSHIP gathered that the dismissal of the policeman was a result of an orderly room t...
The sleepy community of Achara, in Obowo local government area of Imo State, was thrown into confusion few days before the Easter holidays after the traditional ruler of the area, His Royal Highness Eze Kenneth Nnaji, allegedly stabbed one of his subje...
Native doctors in the Delta State capital, Asaba, and its environs are reportedly making brisk business with men of God who allegedly hire their services to increase membership of their churches, by securing for them ‘extra power’ to produc...
Sokoto State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday expressed dismay over the recent acquisition of N600 million housing by the Sokoto State government, describing the decision as a clear indication of the fact thatv the government i...
The Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre(CISLAC), Mr. Auwal Rafsanjani, has attributed the delay in the passage of the 2012 budget to a deliberate ploy by the executive arm of government to frustrate the nation’s econom...
The Kano State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has distanced itself from the candidature of Ismaila Ammani Maizare as the national deputy president of the union. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP and signed by the chairman o...